Oceans on fire

 

The daily global average sea surface temperature (SST) has reached a record high, surpassing the previous record set in March 2024. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed the record, with a temperature of 21.1°C on 22 August, exceeding the previous record of 21.09°C. The C3S ERA5 dataset extends back to 1979.

Although not confirmed yet, the anomaly has gotten even worse, and that's not supposed to happen in September.  It usually happens in Spring. 

We haven't had any hurricanes in the Atlantic yet. This is so weird. But it's not unprecedented. In the historical record of the Atlantic Ocean, only two years—1907 and 1914—have featured zero recorded hurricanes. Both 1907 and 1914 occurred long before modern satellite monitoring began in 1966. Meteorologists note that back then, storms spinning out in the open ocean that never hit land or crossed paths with a ship could easily have gone completely unnoticed. Since the dawn of the satellite era, no Atlantic hurricane season has completely gone without at least one hurricane.